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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1922
Page
12
Washington based on Associated Press says tax revision proposals may come from both majority and minority sides in Congress after Tuesday elections. Progressives and socrats anticipate changes in majorities in House and Senate driving the push for revisions.
A late 19th century style political note discusses a tax on undistributed ration surpluses, labeled as a policy favored by Republicans calling themselves Progressives and examined by Democrats in Congress. The fragment hints at broader tax ideas affecting stock assets and public finances.
Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, minority whip and member of the Ways and Means Committee, favors re enacted excess profits tax in modified form, higher inheritance taxes, a graduated gift tax to curb wealth avoidance. Administration officers oppose broad revenue revisions. Democrats and Progressive Republicans seek new support as House forces shift.
John B. Carnie, 16, news boy of 17 Harvard avenue Dorchester, was struck when a street sign fell after a touring car owned by C. D. Bresle of 383 Harvard street collided with another car driven by Guy L. Bussey of 6 Fairmount street. He suffered injuries to his right shoulder and a thumb, treated by a physician and sent home.
The Gaspe brought a gifted Haitian pig from the West Indies last April. The animal became a studio regular at New Bedford Whaling Film Company and along the waterfront. It avoided plank walks, favored railroad tracks, and followed a Black stowaway like a dog.
The House appropriations committee today began work on the first annual supply bills with a plan to have all ready for the opening day of the December session. Bills before the committee cover the State and Justice departments and include funds for enforcement of national prohibition under the budget. The Justice Department budget also lists money under prohibition to prosecute violators of the Volstead Act.
Sir Almeric Fitzroy, 71, won an appeal overturning a Hyde Park smiling conviction. Police had charged him with annoying women, the case spurred closure talk for Hyde Park at night and drew protests from the Women's Freedom League and the Association of Moral and Social Hygiene.
Rev. Mark C Driscoll editor of the Pilot spoke at the Philomathlela Club on Boston College campus urging a return to Christian democracy and Catholic press support. He named five needs for peace authority respect for work riches not as sole end and Christian ideals guiding reconciliation. A musical program followed by Elizabeth Beasley and Loretta Wilworth and a social hour conclude the event.
John HB Oldham of Merrill Oldham & Co urged a special railroad committee to consolidate New England lines with major trunk lines. He argued this would save New England by providing financial strength for rehabilitation and prevent shippers from losing routes, noting ICC review would occur if a controlling road changed.
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